A Streetcar Named Desire: Society and Class Quotes

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Scene 1

Page 1: "This section is poor but unlike corresponding sections in other American cities, it has a raffish charm...mostly white frame, weathered grey"

"n*gro entertainers at a bar-room around the corner." 

"New Orleans is a cosmopoliton city...easy intermingling of races in the old part of town." 

Page 2: "of a background obviously quite different from her husband's." 

Page 3: "Her appearence is incongruous to this setting." 

Page 4: "No...I'll go tell her you come." (Blanche and the n*gro woman)

Page 7: "Only Mr Edgar Allan Poe!- could do it justice!" 

Page 8: "you have a maid, don't you?" 

Page 10: "his civilian background!" 

Page 13: "He sizes women up, with sexual classifications" 

Scene 2

Page 18: "Have you ever heard of the Napoleonic code?"  

Page 24: "exchanged the land for their epic fornications" 

Page 25: "mix our blood with now that we've lost Belle Reve" 

Scene 3

Page 27: "as coarse and direct as their primary colours." 

Page 28: "the old n*gger" 

Page 29: "Please don't…

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